Earthrise newsletter introduces dev team and their influences
Masthead Studios has released the second newsletter for their upcoming sci-fi MMO Earthrise. As with their first newsletter, it's full of hyperlinks to images and audio related to the game, however there are a few new additions this time around. We've read about the game itself in recent months, but until now little has been known about the people behind the scenes who are working to make Earthrise a reality. The newsletter features an introduction to the members of the Earthrise development team at Masthead Studios in the form of a short Q&A for each developer.
Each of the devs discusses what brought them to work on the project, their influences, and what they do at Masthead Studios to further the creation of Earthrise. There's also screenshots of a new area on Enterra called The Nest and a hyperlinked recap of Earthrise's media coverage in the last month. But the real focus of the Earthrise newsletters is on the community, and a number of issues are showcased in the latest iteration.
Earthrise's Community Manager, Moll, points out that, "lots of guilds have sent emissaries from other games over to stake their claim in Earthrise." She also mentions the Unofficial Guild Index that keeps track of the guilds preparing to join the Earthrise playerbase. Beyond guilds, Moll brings up a few questions that the community has been trying to have addressed. Death and dying in Earthrise is a topic that's gotten some attention on the forums, as has terrritorial control.
She also points out that there's some debate among the growing community over enforced roleplaying and whether this should be an aspect of the game controlled by the devs, or by the players themselves. Masthead Studios hasn't decided -- or hasn't stated -- which way it's going to go on this issue, but the discussion is interesting all the same. No firm timetable has been established regarding beta testing of the game, so until then, the monthly Earthrise newsletters remain the best source of information about the upcoming title.
